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