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.

Filmography

all 24

Movies 24

Director 12

Producer 12

Director

Edgar Howard

Biography

Filmography

all 24

Movies 24

Director 12

Producer 12

James Rosenquist Up Close (2019)

Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper (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)

Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco

Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower

Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects

Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals

Brice Marden

Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest

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