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 piece of American suburban ...

John Waters’ childhood yard was an exercise in good taste. His mother, the president of a local garden club, cultivated burgeoning flowerbeds and precise hedges. In their buttoned-up Maryland suburb, ...

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 piece of American suburban ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The pink plastic flamingo, a Florida-inspired icon that has been reviled as kitschy bad taste and revered as retro cool, is dead at age 49. The pop culture symbol met its ...

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 ...

Donald Featherstone, an artist widely recognized as the creator of the plastic pink flamingo, the lawn ornament that in nearly six decades of ubiquity became one of the most popular and most disdained ...

Tacky? Yes. Iconic? Absolutely. Sadly, the creator of the plastic pink flamingo, Donald Featherstone, passed away on June 22, 2015, at the age of 79. Ironically, his passing was one day before ...

If you've got a plastic pink flamingo on your lawn, give it a pat on the back. The man who designed the lawn art, Donald Featherstone, has died. He was 79. His wife, Nancy, tells The Associated Press ...

BOSTON (AP) — 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 ...

SCITUATE – The flock of plastic pink flamingos that touched down in Scituate yards last year will return. The flamingos are part of a fundraising campaign for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and will be ...

Florida’s oceans slip between turquoise and emerald, its sunsets streak yellow and orange, and its politics shift from blue to purple to red. But pink is Florida’s favorite color. From the cheesy, ...