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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.
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Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design (2022)Director
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest (2021)Director
Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper (2019)Director
James Rosenquist Up Close (2019)Director
On The Wings of Brancusi (2018)Director
The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech (2018)Director
Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision (2015)Director
Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective (2014)Director
Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting (2012)Director
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art (2012)Director
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