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

Brice Marden
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
2011
Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper
2019
On The Wings of Brancusi
2018
Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective
2014
Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
2012
Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution
2009
Duane Michals (1939-1997)
1978
James Rosenquist Up Close
2019
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line
2013
Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision
2015

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Directing
18
Producing
14
2022
Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design
Director
2022
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
Director
2021
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest
Director
2019
Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper
Director
2019
James Rosenquist Up Close
Director
2018
On The Wings of Brancusi
Director
2018
The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech
Director
2015
Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision
Director
2014
Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective
Director
2012
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
Director
2012
Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting
Director
2011
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime
Director
2010
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings
Director
2007
Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments
Director
1985
Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion
Director
1978
Duane Michals (1939-1997)
Director
Brice Marden
Director
John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973
Director