Description: This is an exceptional and Fine Early California Impressionist Desert Landscape Painting, Watercolor on Paper, by renowned early 20th century Chinese - American California Impressionist painter, Richard Dock Yip (1919 - 1981.) This artwork depicts a majestic desert landscape, with majestic rocky peaks, hoodoo rock formations, and an azure sky above. In the foreground, various desert shrubbery and grasses can be seen. This plein air artwork is rendered with bold, powerful brush strokes and a wide variety of colorful hues, creating a modernist Post-Impressionist image that captures the viewer's attention and imagination. This is an early piece by Yip and is signed and dated in the lower right corner: "Richard Yip '49." Approximately 18 x 22 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 14 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches. Good condition for decades of age and storage, with some light edge wear, speckles of pin-sized paint loss, faint creasing, and a few tiny, hardly noticeable tears along the edges (please see photos.) Acquired from an old collection in the Bay Area of Northern California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Richard Dock Yip Born: 1919 - Canton, ChinaDied: 1981Known for: Modernist town-landscape and coastal view paintings, teaching. Richard Dock Yip (1919 - 1981) was active/lived in California, Oklahoma / China. Richard Yip is known for Modernist town-landscape and coastal view paintings, teaching. Biography provided courtesy of California Watercolors 1850-1970 By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last.Richard Yip (1919-1981)...Born: Canton, ChinaStudied: California College of Arts and Crafts (Oakland), College of the Pacific (California), University of California (Berkeley)Member: California Water Color Society.Richard Yip emigrated from China to America in 1931, and while still in high school received a scholarship to study art at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.During World War 11, he served in the United States Air Force and afterwards settled in Stockton. Yip finished his studies at the University of California, Berkeley and began exhibiting his watercolors.He spent much of his life teaching watercolor painting. He was an instructor at the College of the Pacific for many years and conducted private classes in watercolor painting.Biographical information:Interview with Roy Yip, 1985. Yip, Richard Dock (1919-1981) (Lived in Stockton, California)Richard D. Yip provided the following information on his WWII Enlistment Record dated March 12, 1943: alien, single, 2 years of high school, unskilled occupations in laundering, cleaning, dyeing and pressing apparel, enlisted in Fresno as a private;Dock Richard Yip, b. c. 1920 in China, sailing from Hong Kong, arrived in San Francisco on April 20, 1948 per Calif. arriving Passenger and Crew Lists; WIFE – Ginn Lai Sim Yip provided the following information on her Petition for Naturalization 156101 in the District Court at San Francisco, dated ? = Ginn Lai Sim Yip, residing at 1432 East Sonora St., Stockton, Ca., a housewife, is married to Richard Dock Yip, who she married on May 16, 1947 at Luk Kong Vill., Toishan, Kwangtun, China and he was born at Luk Kong Vill., Toishan Dist., Kwangtung, China on July 15, 1919 and entered the United States at San Francisco, California on November 1931 for permanent residence and now resides with me and was naturalized on March 28, 1944 at Oklahoma City, Okla.,Cert no. 6016426 and I have 5 children (and certificate gives their names, birth dates, etc.); Richard Yip, “contributing artist” is pictured with editorial staff in the University of the Pacific yearbook, 1951; Richard Dock Yip’s Biographical Index Card at the California State Library states his father was Sai M. Yip and mother Wang Shee Yip; Richard D. Yip is listed in many Stockton, Ca., CDs; Richard D. Yip b. July 15, 1919 in China, d. Oct. 27, 1981 in San Joaquin County per Calif. California, located on the Pacific Rim, boasts many Asian-American artists. Richard Yip immigrated to America from China in 1931 and spent his teenage years growing up in Stockton, in California’s agricultural San Joaquin valley. His art training came from three main sources – the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, a trip to China, and the University of California, Berkeley. Most of his career he taught art – at Delta, at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, and at Stanislaw, gave numerous watercolor workshops, conducted private classes, and led painting trips to various parts of the world. Yip specialized in watercolor painting in which he used a variety of techniques from wet watercolor applied to wet paper, to dry brush and pigments applied with implements other than brushes. Some works are three dimensional while others are almost abstract. Born in Canton, China, Richard Yip emigrated to America in 1931 and, while still in high school, received a scholarship to study at Oakland's California College of Arts and Crafts. In the Second World War, he served in the U.S.A.F. as a gunner and radioman, becoming the first person of Chinese nationality to receive American citizenship for military service. Upon his return, Yip completed his BA at the University of the Pacific and his Master's Degree at the University of California, Berkeley. By early 1947, he was living on a houseboat in Sausalito and exhibiting his watercolors with success throughout the Bay Area. Over the next twenty years, he evolved a unique style that combined the principles of Modernism with a Post-Impressionist palette, expressing this synthesis with the intuitive, calligraphic brushwork of his own artistic heritage. Richard Yip exhibited with success internationally and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards. A long-time art instructor at the College of the Pacific, he was a member of the California Watercolor Society and, among other honors, was elected a life-member of the Institute of Art and Letters of Switzerland. CRAIG SHARP, RICHARD YIP TWO ARTISTS GO TWO WAYSSausalito News, Volume 63, Number 21, 3 June 1948 A little over a year ago two young artists, Craig Sharp and Richard Yip—who’d been sharing a studio and living quarters on the Lassen—left Sausalito and headed in different directions. Sharp went South, first to the art center in Los Angeles, then on a cruise to Baja California and the mainland of Mexico. And Yip went West to China. Both young men are back now after experiences as various as the compass points they followed Craig and Richard met at art school and had been close friends for several years. They lived aboard the Lassen in Sausalito yacht harbor for about six months, working and painting. ART IN CHINA Richard Yip, who had had one-man watercolor shows before he left, and whose work had drawn wide praise, wanted to go back to his native China to study art and see his family. He visited art galleries in many Chinese cities and was not too impressed with the new work being done, but did see evidence of a developing art movement. He did a lot of painting in China and hopes to show some of his work at the state fair in Sacramento in September. While Richard was in China, he married a Chinese girl named Lae, and the first child, a daughter, was born on shipboard en route to San Francisco. At first, immigration authorities would not allow Lae and the baby to enter California, and the young bride, who spoke no English, could not see her husband until matters were straightened out. Yip, who served as gunner and radioman on a B-24, was the first Chinese to receive his American citizenship because of his military service, and the exact status of the baby born at sea and of the Chinese bride was in doubt for a time. The young family finally got an okay from the immigration authorities, and the Yips have now settled in Stockton where Richard’s family lives. WHITE BLOSSOM, The baby girl, incidentally was named for a boat which was formerly in the Sausalito yacht harbor, and which Richard had admired “White Blossom”, or in Chinese, Pak Mui. Craig, meanwhile, had been studying painting and photography at the art center in Los Angeles. He spotted a newspaper ad ' asking for six people to share I expenses on a cruise to Mexico. There were eleven aboard when i the Idalia, a 75-foot staysail schooner, sailed from San Diego in January. The boat, by the way, had formerly been owned by Painless Parker, the dentist, and was often anchored off Sausalito. LEISURELY JOURNEY The eleven adventurers were gone three months, sailing down the coast of Baja California and the mainland of Mexico to Acapulco. They stopped at all the little fishing ports along the beautiful coast Santos island, Turtle bay, Magdalena bay, Cape San Lucas—talked to the fanners, watched the divers (wearing old U. S. Navy deep-sea equipi ment) go down for abalone, j weathered a storm in the Gulf of California. They anchored at La Paz, capital of Baja California, then sailed on down the coast of Mexico to Manzanillo and on to Acapulco. Craig left the ship at Acapulco. He had brought his light British motorcycle, and he made a bumpy 300-mile trip over the mountains to Mexico City for a week, visiting Taxco and other little towns on the way. STORMY WEATHER When the Idalia left Acapulco, stormy weather forced her far off the coast, 900 miles out to sea, into the Cape Horn sailing course. All the sails were blown off in a severe storm, and the boat anchored at Clarion island, a deserted island, to repair the sails. The whole journey and they sailed all the way—was 4,500 miles and took three months. Craig is now at home with his family in San Anselmo, developing the hundreds of pictures he took on the trip. He’s going to try to get his second mate’s license, then will ship to sea on a freighter before going back to art school. He is a Tam high graduate where he did a mural. He won a scholarship to the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he met Richard Yip. After two years at King’s Point national maritime academy, he was graduated as an ensign with his third mate’s rating, and he went to sea for one year. Life's Track: A Centenary Celebration of Richard Yip (1918-1981) The Reynolds Gallery is pleased to present Life's Track: A Centenary Celebration of Richard Yip (1918 - 1981) on view March 18 through April 5, 2019.Join us in the gallery for receptions, March 21, 6:00 - 8:00 pm and March 23, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. These events are free and open to the public.Organized by the artist's family and the University Curator, the show features work from the family collection with additional work from the University's permanent art collection. This exhibition explores the changes in painter Richard Yip's style, technique, and subject matter in the context of mid-20th century ideas of Eastern and Western art. A prolific watercolorist and beloved teacher, his approachable philosophy toward making art is also on view.About Richard Yip :Born in Canton, China, Yip emigrated to the United States and settled in Stockton with his father in 1931. He received a scholarship to study in Oakland at the California College of Arts & Crafts but his training was cut short by WWII when he enlisted in the Air Force. After the war, he went back to China to refine his study of classical Chinese painting and returned once again to California with a new wife and the first of five children in 1948. He graduated from the College of the Pacific in 1951 and did graduate work at UC Berkeley while beginning the teaching career that would span the rest of his life.Considered an outstanding watercolorist in a field that included many European-trained artists who made their way to Hollywood to work in animated films, Yip is considered a second-generation California Scene painter. His subjects include everything from urban grit to dramatic weather, coastal landscapes to village festivities painted on site in wide-ranging locations from Yosemite to Yugoslavia.Yip taught thousands of students up and down the West Coast and beyond. Organizing his field workshops became the family business which sometimes included feeding class participants and their spouses fish stew on a beach in Mexico or punch and cookies in Golden Gate Park during their class exhibitions.The artist exhibited during his lifetime at the San Francisco Museum of Art Rotunda Gallery, Denver Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the California State Fair, and the Kingsley Art League (Crocker Museum) among other venues. He completed commissions and served as a judge for regional and national exhibitions and was a member of both the California and American Watercolor Societies.
Price: 1350 USD
Location: Orange, California
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Artist: Richard Yip
Signed By: Richard Yip
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Period: Post-War (1940-1970)
Material: Paper, Watercolor
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Framed
Subject: Botanical, Forest, Landscape, Monument, National Parks, Plants, Seasons, States & Counties, Sunsets, Tree, Desert
Type: Painting
Year of Production: 1949
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 18 in
Style: Americana, Impressionism, Plein Air
Theme: Americana, Art, Cities & Towns, Continents & Countries, Exhibitions, Famous Places, Natural History, Nature, Travel & Transportation, Western
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Watercolor Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Handmade: Yes
Item Width: 22 in
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
