American lawns are dying. This decline has nothing to do with widespread drought, greenhouse gasses, pollution, or our penchant for chemical fertilizers and weed killers. Lawns are simply falling out ...
Admit it. When someone says “lawn ornament,” you think of pink plastic flamingos. Don’t be ashamed. The iconic fowl have been flocking to our yards for more than 50 years. We’ve all seen them. Some of ...
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 ...
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, ...
Today we learned that Don Featherstone, creator of the plastic pink flamingo, died yesterday at the age of 79. From the plastic bird's birth to its modern perch atop the pyramid of campy Americana, ...
Admit it. When someone says “lawn ornament,” you think of pink plastic flamingos. Don’t be ashamed. The iconic fowl have been flocking to our yards for more than 50 years. We’ve all seen them. Some of ...
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 ...
At least a dozen metal suns in myriad colors burst from a side wall in my neighbor’s garden, their warm, happy faces gazing down on a bed of succulents. On an adjacent fence, countless abalone shells ...
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 ...