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Dennis Cusick (c. 1800-1824) was a Tuscarora painter from New York and one of the founders of the Iroquois Realist Style of painting. ==Biography== Dennis Cusick was born circa 1800 to the Tuscarora tribe, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. His father was Nicholas Cusick (1758–1840), a Revolutionary War veteran who had fought with the Indian Rangers. The family lived in Oneida County, New York, but moved to Niagara County, New York, when Nicholas was hired to be an interpreter and assistant to the local missions to the Tuscarora. A missionary Elkanah Holmes wrote that Nicholas promised "to collect materials for making up an account of the present state of the Indians, as well as for a history of the ancient tribes inhabiting the state."〔Sturtevant, William C. "Early Iroquois Realist Painting and Identity Marking." ''Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art. ''Vienna: ZKF Publishers, 2007: 129-143. ISBN 978-3-9811620-0-4.〕 This interest in documenting the lifeways and history of area tribes must have influenced his sons, particularly Dennis' older brother, David Cusick, who wrote and illustrated ''Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations'' in 1828. In January 1818, Dennis joined the Tuscarora Congregational Church in January 1818. He painted two watercolors to decorate collection boxes for the church. The Congregationalist mission supported a school on the Seneca Reservation at Buffalo Creek, New York. Dennis died at the age of twenty-four.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dennis Cusick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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