Edgar Howard
Directing · Producer · Director
Active 1978–present
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.
Filmography
Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects — ProducerJulie Mehretu: Palimpsest (2021) — Producer · DirectorBrice Marden — DirectorYvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion (1985) — DirectorJames Salter: A Sport and a Pastime (2011) — Director · ProducerJean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater (2008) — ProducerDuane Michals (1939-1997) (1978) — DirectorJeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective (2014) — DirectorRay Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution (2009) — ProducerJohn Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973 — DirectorInventing Cornell Tech: The Vision (2015) — Producer · DirectorOn The Wings of Brancusi (2018) — Director · ProducerFrank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper (2019) — DirectorThe Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech (2018) — DirectorCarrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art (2012) — DirectorEric Fischl: The Process of Painting (2012) — DirectorEllsworth Kelly: Fragments (2007) — DirectorRudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods (2003) — ProducerSol LeWitt: Wall Drawings (2010) — DirectorJames Rosenquist Up Close (2019) — DirectorPeter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals — ProducerSteven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building (2008) — ProducerStudio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower — ProducerDiller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line (2013) — Producer