In a September 24 letter released by his gallery, Kehinde Wiley asked President Trump to let him buy back Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2015), the painting the State Department pulled from the US Embassy in Santo Domingo this August. The removal came as administration officials criticized the work as 'woke,' part of wider scrutiny of art in American diplomatic missions. Wiley had created the painting for the embassy through the State Department's Art in Embassies program. The request places a prominent artist in direct negotiation with the White House over a work already removed from public view.