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

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«Watson Library visitors often express interest in this elaborate wrought-iron door installed in the Arthur K. Watson Reference Room. If you look at the door carefully, you will see that its vignettes illustrate traditional book arts trades, such as papermaking, bookbinding, and printing. This unique door was made at the firm Samuel Yellin Metalworkers in 1929 as part of a series of architectural elements created for the offices of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency in New York. The door was made for the office of the Vice-President, John Broadus Watson.»

Samuel Yellin (1884–1940) was a prolific designer of decorative iron and metal work and a prominent figure in the early 20th-century American Arts and Crafts movement. Yellin was born in Mogilev, Russia, where he completed his metalsmithing apprenticeship between the ages of 11 and 16. Following his training, Yellin traveled throughout Europe and England before immigrating to the United States in 1906. He settled in Philadelphia, where he found a position teaching ironwork at the Philadelphia Museum School of In

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Samuel Yellin

American master blacksmith and metal designer

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.^[1]

Career

In 1909, Yellin opened his own metalsmith shop.^[2] 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 Ar

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Born: 3/2/1885, Died: 10/3/1940

Speaking to the Architectural Club of Chicago in 1926, Samuel Yellin succinctly described his design process:

There is only one way to make good decorative ironwork and that is with the hammer at the anvil, for in the heat of creation and under the spell of the hammer, the whole conception of a composition is often transformed." (See the link below for the full text of this lecture.)

Samuel Yellin was a leader in the revival of crafts that Philadelphia experienced in the early twentieth century. Along with stained glass artist Nicola D'Ascenzo Yellin encouraged a greater attention to the arts which were applied to buildings, working with notable architects all across the country and drawing considerable attention to Philadelphia as a center for the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Born and trained in Poland, Samuel Yellin diverted from the career of his father (an attorney) to study art and to apprentice with an ornamental metalworker. He came to Philadelphia in 1906, and his abilities soon brought him to the attention