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Samuel Yellin (1884–1940) was an American master blacksmith and metal designer.




Early life and education



Samuel Yellin was born to a Jewish family in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Ukraine in the Russian Empire in 1884. At the age of eleven, he was apprenticed to a master ironsmith. In 1900, at the age of sixteen, he completed his apprenticeship. Shortly afterwards he left Ukraine and traveled through Europe. In about 1905, he arrived in Philadelphia, in the United States, where his mother and two sisters were already living. His brother arrived in Philadelphia at about the same time. In early 1906, Yellin took classes at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and within several months was teaching classes there, a position he maintained until 1919.




Career


In 1909, Yellin opened his own metalsmith shop. In 1915, the firm of Mellor, Meigs & Howe, for whom he designed and created many commissions, designed a new studio for Samuel Yellin Metalworkers at 5520 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Yellin died in 1940, but the firm remained there for decades under the direction of Yellin's son, Harvey. Following Harvey's death, the business moved forward under the ownership and guidance of Samuel Yellin's granddaughter, Clare Yellin. The firm has now been in operation for over 110 years as of this writing (2022).
During the building boom of the 1920s, Samuel Yellin Metalworkers employed as many as 250 workers, many of them European artisans. Although Yellin was highly knowledgeable about traditional craftsmanship and design, he also championed creativity and the development of new designs. Samuel Yellin's works can be found in some of the finest buildings in America.




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Yellin received awards from the Art Institute of Chicago (1919), the American Institute of Architects (1920), the Architectural League of New York (1922), and the Bok Civic Award from the City of Philadelphia (1925). He was a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the T Square Club, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, and the Architectural League of New York.




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Architects whose names appear in Yellin's job book






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Andrews, Jack, Samuel Yellin: Metalsmith, Skipjack Press, Ocean Pines Maryland, 2000
Andrews, Jack, Samuel Yellin, Metalworker, Anvil's Ring, Summer, 1982
Architecture magazine, April 1929
Bach, Penny Balkin, Public Art in Philadelphia, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992
Bedford, Steven McLeod, John Russell Pope: Architect of Empire, Rizzoli International Publications, New York City, 1998
Bok, Edward W., America's Taj Mahal: The Singing Tower of Florida, The Georgia Marble Company, Tate, Georgia, c. 1929
Davis, Myra T., Sketches in Iron, no publishing information
Detroit Institute of Arts: The Architecture, The Detroit Institute of Arts 1928
Fariello, Anna, "Samuel Yellin: Sketching in Iron," Metalsmith Magazine, Fall 2003, http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/samuel-yellin.htm
Federman, Peter, The Detroit Public Library, Classical America IV, Classical America 1977
Gallery, John A., Editor, Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984
Harrington, Ty, "The Wizardry of Samuel Yellin, Artist in Metals", Smithsonian, vol. 12, no. 12 (March 1982), pp. 65–75
Heilbrun, Margaret, The Architecture of Cass Gilbert, Inventing the Skyline, Columbia University Press, New York City, 2000
Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture of America, unpublished manuscript
Teitelman, Edward & Richard W. Longstreth, Architecture in Philadelphia: A Guide, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1981
Wattenmaker, Richard J., Samuel Yellin in Context, Flint Museum of Arts, Flint, Michigan 1985
Wister, Cret, Gilchrist et al., Melor Meigs & Howe, Graybooks, Boulder Colorado 1991 (reprint of 1923 work)




External links



Samuel Yellin, Iron Worker, at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings

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