In Ingres’ Bath, Grace Hartigan referenced Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ Le bain turc (The Turkish Bath) to explore how meaning shifts in different contexts. Here she transforms an idealized display of female bodies into one charged with social agency, asking her subjects, “Are you going to be a paper doll, or a real woman?” Director of MICA’s Hoffberger School of Painting for more than four decades, Hartigan’s deep engagement with art history left a lasting imprint on generations of MICA artists, including painter Amy Sherald (born 1973).