Edgar Howard

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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.

Filmography

• Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design (2022)
• Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory (2022)
• Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest (2021)
• Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper (2019)
• James Rosenquist Up Close (2019)
• On The Wings of Brancusi (2018)
• The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech (2018)
• Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision (2015)
• Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective (2014)
• Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line (2013)
• Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting (2012)
• Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art (2012)
• James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime (2011)
• Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings (2010)
• Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution (2009)
• Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater (2008)
• Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building (2008)
• Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments (2007)
• Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods (2003)
• Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion (1985)
• Duane Michals (1939-1997) (1978)
• Brice Marden
• Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals
• Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects
• Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower
• John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973
• Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco