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 the 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]
Yellin Studio (1915).
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 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.
Honors
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).[3] 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.[4]
Selected works
Universities, colleges and schools
1922 advertisement.
Annapolis Colored High School, Annapolis, Maryland
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Canaan, Connecticut
Episcopal Church of the Evangelist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Now Fleisher Art Memorial.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Pennsylvania
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
St. Patrick's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Kansas City, Missouri
St. Thomas Church, New York
St. Vincent Ferrer, New York
Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C.
Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge Pennsylvania
Harrison Memorial Gates (1918), Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge.
Fiske Portal (1922–23), St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia.
Cross & candlesticks (1925), Resurrection Chapel, Washington National Cathedral.
Entrance grille (1934), Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia.
Screen (1938), St. Joseph of Arimathea Chapel, Washington National Cathedral
Chancel iron gates (ca. 1912) designed by Samuel Yellin at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania), USA
Residential
Detail of stair railing (1924), Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Note Yellin's name and year.Spider screen from the Country Estate of Mrs. Arthur Meigs[5]
(Alphabetical by state)
Winterthur, Henry DuPont residence, Wilmington, Delaware
Dumbarton Oaks, Robert Woods Bliss residence, Washington, D.C.
Cyrus McCormick residence, Chicago, Illinois
Cranbrook, George Gough Booth residence, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
George Eastman residence, Rochester, New York
Fred Fisher residence, Detroit, Michigan
William E. Scripps Estate, Lake Orion, Michigan[6]
George H. Christian Mansion, Minneapolis, Minnesota (current home of Hennepin History Museum)
Frick Residence, New York
Dominican Academy High School, formerly the Michael Friedsam Residence, New York
Isaac Guggenheim residence, Port Washington, New York
Matinecock, Estate of J.P. Morgan. Jr., Long Island, New York
Eagle's Nest, Estate of William K. Vanderbilt II, Long Island, New York
Wenzel, Paul and Maurice Krakow, A Monograph of the Works of Mellor Meigs & Howe, The Architectural Book Publishing Co., New York, 1923, reprinted Graybooks, Boulder, CO, 1991 p. 104
Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
2019-2025 WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии