Hip, Hip, Hurrah! scene (and in composition and subject draws obvious comparisons to Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"), but at the same time it harks back to the "freundschaftbild" tradition of artists of the Danish Golden Age such as Ditlev Blunck and Wilhelm Bendz in depicting artistic communities spontaneously drawing together. The development of Krøyer's Skagen style can be seen by comparing "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!" with ("Artists' Luncheon at Skagen"), a similarly themed 1883 painting which features many of the same people; and with later works like "" ("Summer Evening at Skagen beach. The Artist and his Wife") and "Roser" ("Roses"). The
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