Edgar Howard
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Biography
Edgar Howard is the Founder and President of Checkerboard Films, a non-profit foundation established in 1979 to document the American arts for archival and educational purposes. He has produced and/or directed over 45 films, beginning with his first profile on painter Brice Marden in 1977.
Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design
2022 · Director
Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design
2022 · Producer
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
2022 · Director
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest
2021 · Director
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest
2021 · Producer
Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper
2019 · Director
James Rosenquist Up Close
2019 · Director
On The Wings of Brancusi
2018 · Producer
On The Wings of Brancusi
2018 · Director
The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech
2018 · Director
Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision
2015 · Director
Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision
2015 · Producer
Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective
2014 · Director
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line
2013 · Producer
Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting
2012 · Director
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
2012 · Director
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
2011 · Director
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
2011 · Producer
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings
2010 · Director
Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution
2009 · Producer
Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater
2008 · Producer
Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
2008 · Producer
Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments
2007 · Director
Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods
2003 · Producer
Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion
1985 · Director
Duane Michals (1939-1997)
1978 · Director
Brice Marden
Director
Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects
Producer
John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973
Director
Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals
Producer
Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower
Producer
Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco
Producer
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