Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher.

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.

Source: Death Index (refs. ancestry.com).

For Additional Information:
Nancy Moure, “Central Coast Artist Visitors before 1960,” (PUBLICATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ART, VOL. 13, NO. VII), Cambria, Ca.: Dustin Publications, 2022.

Biography provided courtesy of California Watercolors 1850-1970 By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last.

Richard Yip (1919-1981)...Born: Canton, China

Studied: 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.