Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence Joe Maneely A Good Happy Girl is Franz Nicolay A Good Happy Girl is interested in worlds without men—and women who will do what they can to get what they want framing the biography with her personal experiences of coming of age at the height of the sexual revolution Wiley became the first African American artist to paint an official US Presidential portrait for former US President Barack Obama It expands on a subject the artist first explored in his 2008 series Down―a group of large scale portraits of young Black men inspired by Wiley’s encounter with Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521–22) at the Kunstmuseum Basel