H. Parrott Bacot

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H. Parrott Bacot (1941–2020)^[1] was an American art historian, museum director, and educator.^[1] He was a specialist in the art of the American South, and served for more than thirty years as Director of the LSU Museum of Art.^[2] He was Professor Emeritus of Art History at Louisiana State University.^[1]

Biography[]

Henry Parrott Bacot was born December 13, 1941, in Shreveport, Louisiana; to parents Henry Parrott Bacot Sr. and Martha Jane Van Loan Bacot.^[1] He had a BA degree from Baylor University, and his MA degree from State University of New York at Oneonta and served as a fellow at the Cooperstown Graduate Program.^[1]

In addition to various exhibition catalogues, he is the author of an important book on nineteenth-century lighting devices. His most recent books, written in collaboration with other local scholars, are monographs on nineteenth-century Louisiana artists and Marie Adrien Persac; the latter was named Book of the Year for 2000 by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and won the Victorian Society in America’s Ruth Emery Award for best regional book on a nineteenth-century topic.^[3]

He last worked on a major study of early Louisiana furniture. Bacot was a Professor in European and American Decorative Arts, Southern Art, and Museology at Louisiana State University.^[4]

Works[]

• Plantations by the River: Watercolor Paintings from St. Charles Parish, Louisiana by Father Joseph M. Paret, 1859
• Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist, LSU Press ISBN 978-0-8071-2641-7

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