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