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Gary Conklin

Subjects have included the late American writer and composer Paul Bowles, in Paul Bowles in Morocco, which is as much about the North African country as it is about Bowles; Gore Vidal while running for U.S. Senate in 1982; the American painter Edward Ruscha, and the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo.


Joe Goode

First recognized for his Pop Art milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery, Goode's work was included along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the 1962 ground-breaking exhibit New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum).

Phillip Hefferton

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.


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