Beauford Delaney
(1901- 1979)
 

Beauford Delaney was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950s. Beauford's younger brother, Joseph, was also a noted painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauford_Delaney

Portrait of James Baldwin
1965
Oil on canvas
64.8 × 54 cm
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, US

<i>Intense yellow brings a sacred and redemptive light to Beauford Delaney’s portraits of people he admired, as seen here framing the writer and Civil Rights activist James Baldwin (1924–1987).</I>