Phillip Hefferton
Phillip Hefferton 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.