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]
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Interior view of Daliel's Gallery looking toward SF Bay -
Interior view of Daliel's looking toward Telegraph Avenue -
George Leite and Anaïs Nin at booksigning at Daliel's -
Interior view of Daliel's Gallery looking toward Telegraph Avenue -
Construction barricade by Bezalel Schatz at Daliel's in 1946
Notable artists exhibited
edit- 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 -
Robert McChesney exhibit 1950 promotional card -
Emerson Elementary School student exhibit 1948 promotional card -
Basil Marros exhibit 1947 promotional card -
Zahara Schatz exhibit 1949 promotional card
References
edit- ^ "Oral history interview with Nancy Leite". leitefamily.net. May 5, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ^ Davidson, Michael (1991). The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-521-42304-5.
- ^ "Berkeley Daily Gazette". January 12, 1947. p. 11.
- ^ "Berkeley Daily Gazette". May 4, 1950. p. 8.
- ^ Brady, Mildred (April 1947). "The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy". Harper's Magazine.
