Daliel's Gallery (stylized in all lowercase, and sometimes just 'daliel') was a display and performance space in the San Francisco Bay Area in California in the 1940s and 1950s; the building also contained Daliel's Bookstore. 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]
The bookstore was also the home of Circle Magazine[2] and Circle Editions, the publishing ventures Leite established at the same time.
Artists featured in the gallery included painters, sculptors and printmakers, as well as jewellers, musicians, and modern dancers.[3] These included painter Zahara Schatz, jazz musician Dave Brubeck from Concord, sculptor Jean Varda, and jeweler Peter Macchiarini. 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] The store closed in 1952 several years after the magazine ceased publication.[5]
. The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century . Michael Davidson (poet) . 39 . 1991 . . 978-0-521-42304-5 .