Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery invites you to join us Wednesday, January 19, from 6 to 9 pm, as we celebrate the 1st full moon of 2011 in the city with the most beautiful nights – Santa Barbara. Featuring music, dance, poetry, food, and libation, this "ode to the moon" will also celebrate the art of nocturne paintings, with 40 night paintings by Lockwood de Forest (1850 - 1932), and its accompanying publication, "Collecting Moonlight: The Night Paintings of Lockwood de Forest". The Full Moon Extravaganza will also include contemporary nocturne paintings by Robin Gowen, Hank Pitcher, Nicole Strasburg, Martha Erlebacher, John Nava, and Meredith Brooks Abbott. Come revel under the full moon & celebrate our beautiful city nights while enjoying the Moonlights exhibition, accompanied by two new publications (De Forest’s Santa Barbara and Collecting Moonlight: The Night Paintings of Lockwood de Forest) commemorating the historic discovery of three lost caches of sublime landscape paintings of Santa Barbara by one of America’s lost artistic geniuses of the 19th century, Lockwood de Forest. 40 Days & 40 Nights: Eighty Paintings by Lockwood de Forest (1850 – 1932).