Biografie von Michael Stephen KENNEDY (1912-?)

Birth place: Belt, MT

Addresses: Helena, MT

Profession: Historian, writer, lecturer, editor, designer

Studied: Montana State Univ. (B.S., Journalism) ; Northwestern Univ., (M.A., Magazine Journalism & Des.)

Member: Sigma Delta Chi; Western Hist. Assn.; AFA; AAMus.; Am. Assn. for State & Local Hist.; Montana Inst. Arts; Montana FA Comn.; Nat. Writers Club; Sons & Daughters Montana Pioneers.

Comments: Positions: ed., Walnut Creek Courier-Journal, (CA), 1950-51; managing ed. & ed., Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 1953-; consult., Western Heritage Center & Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City; consult., Great Plains Mus., Lawton, OK; asst. dir., 1954-57, dir., 1957-, Montana Hist. Soc., Helena. MT. Auth./ed.: Land of Nakota, 1939; Copper Camp, 1943; Montana: A Profile in Pictures, 1941; The Assiniboines, 1961; Cowboys and Cattlemen, 1964; Red Man's West, 1965. Lectures: The Art of Charles M. Russell; Western Am. Art and the Hist. Mus., to museum conferences. Charles M. Russell Exh., Smithsonian Inst., Wash., D.C., 1958 (Nat. Mus. FA largest coll. of the artist's works ever assembled); Acquired the Poindexter Coll., NY School, 89 canvases for the Montana Hist. Soc.; Kerr Ivory Coll.; largest coll. of E. S. Paxson art in existence; planned and assembled "An Art Perspective of the Historic Pacific Northwest," 1963."