Edgar Howard
Known for
Directing
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.
Best known work
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest
2021
Brice Marden
Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion
1985
Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
2011Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater
2008
Duane Michals (1939-1997)
1978
Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective
2014
Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution
2009John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973
Filmography
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Brice MardenDirector
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2022
Vladimir Kagan: A Life of DesignDirector, Producer
2022
2021
Julie Mehretu: PalimpsestProducer, Director
2019
2019
James Rosenquist Up CloseDirector
2018
On The Wings of BrancusiDirector, Producer
2018
2015
Inventing Cornell Tech: The VisionProducer, Director
2014
2013
2012
2012
2011
James Salter: A Sport and a PastimeDirector, Producer
2010
Sol LeWitt: Wall DrawingsDirector
2009
2008
Jean Nouvel: Guthrie TheaterProducer
2008
2007
Ellsworth Kelly: FragmentsDirector
2003