Painter Bruce Aiken has lived for 33 years at the bottom of the Grand Canyon where he has worked for the Park Service, raised a family and painted intimate and unique views of the Canyon. A native... Read full biography
Painter Bruce Aiken has lived for 33 years at the bottom of the Grand Canyon where he has worked for the Park Service, raised a family and painted intimate and unique views of the Canyon. A native New Yorker, Aiken first encountered the Grand Canyon while on a road trip out west with his brother at... Read full biography
Painter Bruce Aiken has lived for 33 years at the bottom of the Grand Canyon where he has worked for the Park Service, raised a family and painted intimate and unique views of the Canyon. A native New Yorker, Aiken first encountered the Grand Canyon while on a road trip out west with his brother at the age of nineteen. The following year he dropped out of the School of the Visual Arts in New York and moved to Arizona. He spent a few years in Phoenix where he attended Phoenix College and met his... Read full biography
Painter Bruce Aiken has lived for 33 years at the bottom of the Grand Canyon where he has worked for the Park Service, raised a family and painted intimate and unique views of the Canyon. A native New Yorker, Aiken first encountered the Grand Canyon while on a road trip out west with his brother at the age of nineteen. The following year he dropped out of the School of the Visual Arts in New York and moved to Arizona. He spent a few years in Phoenix where he attended Phoenix College and met his wife, Mary. In 1973 Aiken took a job at Grand Canyon National Park working on the trails. This employment led to his job as the Roaring Springs Pumphouse Operator at the bottom of the North Rim. The couple and their three children lived in this... Read full biography
Painter Bruce Aiken has lived for 33 years at the bottom of the Grand Canyon where he has worked for the Park Service, raised a family and painted intimate and unique views of the Canyon. A native New Yorker, Aiken first encountered the Grand Canyon while on a road trip out west with his brother at the age of nineteen. The following year he dropped out of the School of the Visual Arts in New York and moved to Arizona. He spent a few years in Phoenix where he attended Phoenix College and met his wife, Mary. In 1973 Aiken took a job at Grand Canyon National Park working on the trails. This employment led to his job as the Roaring Springs Pumphouse Operator at the bottom of the North Rim. The couple and their three children lived in this location from March until November of each year. They had a three-bedroom house complete wit... Read full biography
Bruce A Aiken - Artist Info
About Bruce A Aiken: Books
Books & Publications (4)
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Bruce Aiken's Grand Canyon: An Intimate Affair
2006
McGarry, Susan Hallsten; John McCain (foreward)
160 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
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