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 ...

Donald Feathertone, creator of the iconic pink plastic flamingo that has decorated lawns for decades, died Monday in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Cado Co. President Bruce Zarozny said. He was 79. “Donald ...

Featherstone, a trained sculptor with a classical art background, created the flamingo in 1957 for plastics company Union Products, modeling it after a bird he saw in National Geographic. Millions of ...

Chances are, at some point you’ve seen a plastic pink flamingo, or perhaps a whole flock, adorning someone’s lawn. Wherever it was, you have Donald Featherstone to thank for that neon memory in your ...

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 ...

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 ...

FITCHBURG - The Leominster native who created the iconic pink plastic lawn flamingo that has adorned American lawns since the 1950s had died. Donald Featherstone, 79, died at an elder care facility in ...

BOSTON – The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch, has died. Donald Featherstone was 79. Featherstone's wife, Nancy, told the Associated Press on ...

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 kitsch. And ...