His lawn flamingo, mass-produced by his employer, Union Products, of Leominster, Massachusetts, has since become an icon of pop culture[1] that won him the Ig Nobel Prize for Art in 1996.

In December 2001, the Annals of Improbable Research (bestowers of the Ig Nobel prize) teamed up with the Museum of Bad Art to protest this omission in the form of a boycott.

[6] Some homeowners associations forbid the installation of plastic flamingos and similar lawn ornaments, and will fine offending owners,[7] on the basis that such decorations lower the neighborhood's real estate values.

In 2024, as a political statement, some homeowners painted their pink plastic flamingoes blue, to indicate support for Harris-Walz over Trump-Vance in the Presidential election.

This was reported mainly in retirement communities in the southern US, where neighborhood associations often forbid the posting of political lawn signs.