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.

The bookstore was also the home of Circle Magazine and Circle Editions, the publishing ventures Leite established at the same time.

Daliel's Gallery

Artists featured in the gallery included painters, sculptors and printmakers, as well as jewellers, musicians, and modern dancers. 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. The store closed in 1952 several years after the magazine ceased publication.

Daliel's Gallery

Notable 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

References

1945 establishments in California

1952 disestablishments in California

Beat Generation

Bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area

Companies based in Berkeley, California

Culture of Berkeley, California

Defunct art museums and galleries in California

Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Retail companies based in California

Independent bookstores of the United States

Daliel's Gallery