The Phillips Collection by European masters such as Gustave Courbet, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Jacques Villon, Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso. In 1923, Phillips purchased Pierre-Auguste Renoir's impressionist painting, "Luncheon of the Boating Party" (1880–81), the museum’s best-known work. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Phillips re-arranged his galleries in installations that were non-chronological and non-traditional, reflecting the relationships he saw between various artistic expressions. He presented visual connections—between past and present, between classical form and romantic expression—as dialogues on the walls of the museum. Giving equal focus to American
Lakeland Boating time was considered a small-circulation magazine, into a national giant. Peterson quickly tripled "Lakeland Boating"'s circulation to a high of 60,000. Peterson Publications folded its own "Sea" magazine into "Lakeland Boating", growing the magazine from 40 pages an issue to 130. Kitz, now an associate publisher for the magazine, found his strong editorial voice gone from the magazine now but continued to write his "View from the Bridge" column until the magazine dropped it upon sale to its current publisher. Walter "Bing" O'Meara and David Brown purchased "Lakeland Boating" in 1983. O'Meara learned magazine publishing in the food service and