Samuel Yellin, Transom (Fire Screen) for the J. Walter Thompson Office
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1927Wrought iron
Fitted as a fire screen on a later conforming wrought iron base with removable high-temperature ceramic glass by Tatti Art Conservation (later base and glass are removable for reversion to original configuration)
Apparently unmarked
H: 20 1/8, W: 37, D: 9 in. (overall)
H: 18, W: 37, D: 3/4 in. (original transom panel)

Note
These transom panels, designed in 1927 for the J. Walter Thompson offices in the Graybar Building, New York, are represented in the Samuel Yellin Archive as Job No. 2660. The archive (Samuel Yellin Collection, Architectural Archives, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania) contains an in-progress sketch of the present lot before the design was fully finalized, and a black and white photograph of a transom of identical design dated 1928. These documents are reproduced here courtesy of the Architectural Archives and are not included in the sale.


Provenance
Property from a Private New York Collection