Henry "Pat" Parrott Bacot, Jr. (December 13, 1941 – October 10, 2020) was an American

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

, curator, and

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. A scholar of

Southern art Art from Southern United States, or Southern art, includes Southern expressionism, folk art, and modernism. Residents of the American South created works of art starting in 1607, however it was not until the early 1960s that Southern art became r ...

, specifically that of Louisiana, Bacot served as Professor of Art History Emeritus and Executive Director of the

LSU Museum of Art Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisian ...

at Louisiana State University.

Career

Born in

Shreveport Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population o ...

to Henry Sr. and Martha Jane Van Loan, Bacot earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Baylor University in 1963 and a Master of Arts in

Museology Museology or museum studies is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservation, public programming, and education. Terminology The w ...

and American Folk Art from State University of New York at Oneonta in 1972. In 1967, Bacot began working as a Curator at the

and an Instructor of Art History at Louisiana State University. In 1983, he was promoted to Professor of Art History and Executive Director of the museum. Bacot would retire from the university in 2008. Throughout his career, he focused on

, specifically that of Louisiana. Bacot studied artists such as

Caroline Durieux Caroline Wogan Durieux (January 22, 1896 – November 26, 1989) was an American printmaker, painter, and educator. She was a Professor Emeritus at both Louisiana State University, where she worked from 1943 to 1964 and at Newcomb College of Tula ...

Pietro Gualdi Pietro Gualdi, aka Pedro Gualdi (22 July 1808 – 4 January 1857), was an Italian-born artist, panorama painter, architect and lithographer who was active in Mexico City from 1838 to about 1851, and in New Orleans from about 1851 to 1857. In Me ...

, and

Marie Adrien Persac Marie Adrien Persac (1823–1873) was a French-born American fine art painter, cartographer, photographer, and art teacher. Persac watercolored south Louisiana plantation houses and other aspects of the Southern landscape, and his work has much i ...

, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century

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and decorative arts from the area. His 2000 book on Persac was awarded the Ruth Emery Award for best regional book in that year. Bacot died in 2020. Two years later, the LSU Museum of Art began an annual lecture in his name called the H. Parrott Bacot Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series, which focuses on the decorative arts.

Works

*''Nineteenth Century Lighting: Candle-Powered Devices, 1783-1883,'' 1987 *''Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist,'' 2000

References

External links

Louisiana State University profile
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