<Tr> <Th> Notable work </Th> <Td> Plastic flamingo </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Ig Nobel--Art Prize 1996 Plastic flamingo </Td> </Tr> <P> Donald "Don" Featherstone (January 25, 1936--June 22, 2015) was an American artist most widely known for his 1957 creation of the plastic pink flamingo while working for Union Products . Featherstone resided in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he kept 57 plastic flamingos on his front lawn . Featherstone and his wife Nancy dressed alike for over 35 years . </P> <P> Featherstone was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1936 and grew up in nearby Berlin . After graduating from the Worcester Art Museum's art school, in 1957, he was offered a job designing three - dimensional animals for Union Products, Inc . Over his years at Union Products, Featherstone sculpted over 750 different items, the first of which were a girl with a water can and a boy with a dog . When Featherstone was asked in 1957 to sculpt a duck, he purchased one, which he named Charlie, and later released the bird in Coggshall Park . Later that year, he was asked to carve a flamingo . The now iconic pink flamingo went on sale in 1958, when the color pink was popular . </P>

When was the pink flamingo lawn ornament invented