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305:. She was the first American gallerist to show contemporary and outsider work together. In 1972, Phyllis Kind presented her first group show of outsider art, "The Artless Artist: Contemporary 'Naive Works." Over the years, Kind showed Chicago custodian 219:
Encouraged by her husband, Phyllis Kind opened a gallery in Chicago in 1967. Called Pro Grafica Arte, the gallery dealt in master prints and drawings. In 1975, she opened a gallery on Spring Street in New York's
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in 1979. Phyllis Kind sought out artists of originality who exhibited what she called "the art of necessity," "making art not because they might want to but instead because they have to." Among those were
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She married Joshua Kind, whom she met at university, in 1956. The couple moved to New York City; Phyllis taught elementary school while Joshua pursued a
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In 1998, Kind closed her Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago, located at 313 West Superior Street, in part as a result of the death of artist Roger Brown.
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Phyllis Kind became interested in the contemporary art scene of Chicago. She followed the work of a movement that, overall, was called the
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on 1 April 1933 to Harold Cobin, a dentist, and Dorothy (Weintraub) Cobin. She was their only child. The family lived in
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The 2019 Outsider Art Fair featured a space curated by Edward M. Gómez as a memorial to Phyllis Kind.
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They had four children, Jonathan, Gabriel, Deborah, and Rachel. The couple divorced in the 1970s.
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since its inception in 1992, and traditionally occupied the first booth on the show floor.
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district. The gallery moved to a larger, ground floor space on Greene Street in 1983.
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For 25 years, Ron Jagger served as director of Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York.
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as well as The Bronx. She and her mother also lived for about three years in
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In 2009, Phyllis Kind closed her last gallery, a space in New York's
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In New York, she mounted the first solo show for the miniaturist
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while her father performed military service. She attended the
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active in Chicago and New York. She promoted the work of the
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on September 28, 2018, aged 85, from respiratory failure.
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in 1971. Among others shown in her Chicago gallery were
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telling the story of opening her first gallery in Chicago
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Penske Business Media 202:Northwestern University 171:St. Petersburg, Florida 198:Mannes School of Music 188:in Renaissance art at 891:People from Manhattan 886:People from the Bronx 862:of Kind, artists, art 579:"Ron Jagger Fine Art" 206:University of Chicago 153:Early life and family 113:University of Chicago 44:Phyllis Barbara Cobin 896:American art dealers 834:Phyllis Kind Gallery 693:. 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