Luncheon of the Boating Party painting, combining figures, still-life, and landscape in one work, depicts a group of Renoir's friends relaxing on a balcony at the Maison Fournaise restaurant along the Seine river in Chatou, France. The painter and art patron, Gustave Caillebotte, is seated in the lower right. Renoir's future wife, Aline Charigot, is in the foreground playing with a small dog, an affenpinscher; she replaced an earlier woman who sat for the painting but with whom Renoir became annoyed. On the table is fruit and wine. The diagonal of the railing serves to demarcate the two halves of the composition, one densely packed
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