Phillip Hefferton

Phillip Hefferton (July 25, 1933 – April 2, 2008) was an American pop artist from Detroit, Michigan, known for his paintings of banknotes.

Artist
In 1958-9 he began drawing "common objects". In 1960 his work was featured in an Art 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 with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Robert Dowd, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the exhibition New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum, the first museum survey of pop art in America.

Family life
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.

Death
Phillip Conrad Hefferton died at home of kidney cancer on April 2, 2008. He left his daughter almost 200 paintings and hundreds of drawings.