daliel's Gallery (stylized with a lowercase 'd', and sometimes just 'daliel') was a display and performance space in the

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in the 1940s and 1950s; the building also contained daliel's Bookstore.

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opened daliel's at 2466

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between Dwight and Haste Streets in

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, as a combination bookstore and art gallery in 1945, naming both after a half-brother in Portugal he had never met, Dalael Leite. The bookstore was also the home of '' Circle Magazine'' 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. These included painter

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, jazz musician Dave Brubeck from Concord, sculptor

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, 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. The store closed in 1952 several years after the magazine ceased publication. File:Looking west in daliel's gallery in Berkeley%2C CA 1946.jpg, Interior view of daliel's Gallery looking toward SF Bay File:Daliel's-interior.jpg, Interior view of daliel's looking toward Telegraph Avenue File:George and Anaïs.jpg, George Leite and Anaïs Nin at booksigning at daliel's File:Looking east in daliel's gallery in Berkeley%2C CA 1946.jpg, Interior view of daliel's Gallery looking toward Telegraph Avenue File:Daliel's-construction.jpg, Construction barricade by Bezalel Schatz at daliel's in 1946

Partial list of Artists Exhibited

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– water colors * Dave Brubeck – jazz chamber music *

David Park (painter) David Park (March 17, 1911 – September 20, 1960) was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s. Biography David Park was born in Boston, the son of Mary Turner and Charles Edward Par ...

– paintings *

Elmer Bischoff Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991) was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post- World War II generation of artists who started as abstract p ...

– paintings * Eugene Berman Berman Brothers – paintings *

George Albert Harris George Albert Harris, also known as George Harris (1913–1991), was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, and educator. He was a participant in the WPA Federal Art Project and was among the youngest artists on the mural project at Coit T ...

– paintings *

– mosaics and collages *

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– photographs * Marc Chagall – prints * Peter Macchiarini – jewelry * Robert P. McChesney – drawings and paintings *

– plastic laminations and paintings File:Chiura obata daliel's gallery 1949.jpg, Chiura Obata exhibit 1949 promotional print File:Robert mcchesney daliel's gallery 1950.jpg, Robert McChesney exhibit 1950 promotional card File:Emerson school daliel's gallery 1948.jpg, Emerson Elementary School student exhibit 1948 promotional card File:Basil marros daliel's gallery 1947.jpg, Basil Marros exhibit 1947 promotional card File:Zahara schatz daliel's gallery 1949.jpg, Zahara Schatz exhibit 1949 promotional card

References

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