Earl R. Merrill: Gallerist Phyllis Kind, Who Created A Market For ‘Outsider’ Artists, Dead At 85

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Gallerist Phyllis Kind, Who Created A Market For ‘Outsider’ Artists, Dead At 85

“What started as a print shop devoted to Old Masters quickly became, under Phyllis’s leadership …, a hotbed for vanguard art in [Chicago], promoting artists — grouped together under the names the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists — who were mining comic books, Pop art, and Surrealism to make graphically punchy, bawdy, psychedelic, and psychologically charged pictures.”