The Immaculate Doghouse
Bill Charmatz famous painting of "The Immaculate Doghouse" re-appears as editorial illustration in the 2009 Sept/ Oct issue of The Bark magazine.
Katrina was contacted by The Bark's, Editor-In-Chief/ Publisher-Cameron Woo about using Charmatz painting, which originally appeared in Sports Illustrated in 1967, in an upcoming issue. Katrina said, he wanted to use the image for an story called “Breeding for Beauty:
BBC’s “Pedigree Dogs Exposed” strikes a chord” By Beverley Cuddy. I thought it was an investigative and provocative story, (which my dad would have liked), and it was about welfare & wellbeing of dogs. (Any kind of animal abuse was a hot button for my father). “The folks over at The Bark are always so nice, I am honored that they still think of my Dad’s artwork for the editorial side of their magazine.” Katrina concluded.
EXCERPT:
For decades, the details of dog breeding and showing had been closeted from the critical view of the outside world.
In August 2008, a powerful BBC documentary, Pedigree Dogs Exposed (PDE), rocked the dog world when it claimed to reveal the “greatest animal welfare scandal of our time.” Following its premiere, a review in a national newspaper said the show had “gone off like a bomb in quite a few British living rooms.” Four million British people watched, and the BBC received its biggest-ever viewer response to a single program. Middle England was outraged.