In 1978 Pratt's painting "Girl in a Wicker Chair", created that year, was published on the cover of "Saturday Night" magazine. This was the first of an extended series of paintings on Donna Meaney, who first served as a model for Pratt's artist husband, Christopher Pratt, and later began an affair with him. Many of Pratt's paintings were based on earlier slides of Meaney that her husband had taken. Pratt's portraits of Meaney embody a noticeable tension that is absent in her husband's paintings of her. However, Pratt always regarded Meaney as a friend.