daliel's Gallery

Front of daliel's Bookstore and Gallery in Berkeley, California, 1946

daliel's Gallery (stylized with a lowercase 'd', and sometimes just 'daliel' ) was a display and performance space in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California in the 1940s and 1950s. George Leite opened daliel's at 2466 Telegraph Avenue between Dwight and Haste Streets in Berkeley, as a combination bookstore and art gallery in 1945, naming both after a half-brother in Portugal he had never met, Dalael Leite.^[1] daliel's Bookstore was also the home of Circle Magazine^[2] and Circle Editions. Artists featured in the gallery included painters, sculptors and printmakers, as well as jewellers, musicians, and modern dancers.^[3] One show in 1950 was by a group of nuns from Oregon who had been taught in a summer class at their college by Jean Varda.^[4]

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  Interior view of daliel's Gallery looking toward SF Bay

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  Interior view of daliel's Gallery looking toward Telegraph Avenue

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  Construction barricade by Bezalel Schatz at daliel's in 1946

Partial list of Artists Exhibited

• Chiura Obata – water colors
• Dave Brubeck – jazz chamber music
• David Park (painter) – paintings
• Elmer Bischoff – paintings
• Eugene Berman Berman Brothers – paintings
• George Albert Harris – paintings
• Jean Varda – mosaics and collages
• Man Ray – photographs
• Marc Chagall – prints
• Peter Macchiarini – jewelry
• Robert P. McChesney – drawings and paintings
• Zahara Schatz – plastic laminations and paintings

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  Chiura Obata exhibit 1949 promotional print

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  Robert McChesney exhibit 1950 promotional card

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  Emerson Elementary School student exhibit 1948 promotional card

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  Basil Marros exhibit 1947 promotional card

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  Zahara Schatz exhibit 1949 promotional card

References

1. "Oral history interview with Nancy Leite". daliel.leitefamily.net. May 5, 2015. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
2. Davidson, Michael (1991). The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-521-42304-5.
3. "Berkeley Daily Gazette". January 12, 1947. p. 11.
4. "Berkeley Daily Gazette". May 4, 1950. p. 8.