About
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 Design2022 · Director, Producer
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory2022 · Director
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest2021 · Producer, Director
Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper2019 · Director
James Rosenquist Up Close2019 · Director
On The Wings of Brancusi2018 · Director, Producer
The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech2018 · Director
Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision2015 · Producer, Director
Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective2014 · Director
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line2013 · Producer
Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting2012 · Director
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art2012 · Director
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime2011 · Director, Producer
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings2010 · Director
Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution2009 · Producer
Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater2008 · Producer
Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building2008 · Producer
Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments2007 · Director
Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods2003 · Producer
Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion1985 · Director