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Phillip Hefferton (July 25, 1933 – April 2, 2008) was an Americanpop artist fromDetroit, Michigan, known for his paintings of banknotes.
In 1958-9 he began drawing "common objects". In 1960 his work was featured in anArt in America article by Robert Broner on the "Young Artists Group" in Detroit. In 1960 he moved to San Francisco and began work on his first images of banknotes and in 1961 he moved to Los Angeles.
In 1962 Hefferton's work was included, along withRoy Lichtenstein,Andy Warhol,Jim Dine,Robert Dowd,Joe Goode,Edward Ruscha, andWayne Thiebaud, in the exhibitionNew Painting of Common Objects, curated byWalter Hopps at thePasadena Art Museum, the first museum survey of pop art in America.
On July 24, 1987, Phillip Hefferton met his only child, Susanne-Truth Nichole Hefferton. He was 53 and she was 22. They spent the next 21 years together. He made paintings and drawings for 50 years.
Phillip Conrad Hefferton died at home of kidney cancer on April 2, 2008. He left his daughter almost 200 paintings and hundreds of drawings.
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