Phillip Hefferton

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

In 1960 his work was featured in an Art in America article by Robert Broner on the "Young Artists Group" in Detroit.

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.

Phillip Conrad Hefferton died at home of kidney cancer on April 2, 2008.

He left his daughter almost 200 paintings and hundreds of drawings.