Donald Featherstone, who died on Monday at 79, may not be a household name, but the artist was the creator of the ubiquitous pink plastic flamingo, found on suburban lawns across the country for over ...

Fifty nine years ago, a young graduate of the Worcester Art Museum school sculpted a pink flamingo. Working from photos in a National Geographic magazine, Donald Featherstone created the now iconic ...

BOSTON - Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist, who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo - the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch ...

LEOMINSTER – The city is certainly proud of one of its claims to fame, the pink flamingo lawn ornament, and has 40 flamingo crosswalk paintings downtown to prove it. The wading bird will be celebrated ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This vintage pair of Don Featherstone ...

Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist, who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo - the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch. And it ...

The Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM) in central Massachusetts is on a mission to redefine its role. "Many art museums are very busy serving art — and we look at it a little differently," director Nick ...

I was heading home through a neighborhood north of ours the other day. And that’s when I saw the painted trees. All of the trees — about two dozen total — have been whitewashed up to about six-feet ...

The premiere of Judith Lindstedt’s documentary “Featherstone’s Flamingo: Pink and Proud” at the Fitchburg Historical Society in Oct. 9: FITCHBURG – One Christmas, Nancy Featherstone, 63, decided to ...

One American product whose popularity may just outlive the Green Giant is - wait for it - the pink lawn flamingo. Well, the creator of the plastic lawn statue died on Monday - Donald Featherstone. He ...

BOSTON (AP) — Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo — the ultimate piece of American suburban ...