Sam Whiting April 15, 2021Updated: April 15, 2021, 4:28 pm
Ed Green in 2010 Photo: Johnny Grace 2010
As a master picture framer, Ed Green’s goal was to select a raw piece of wood and create a quadrangle that no viewer would notice.
“I don’t think what I do is art,” Green once said in a video on his website. “I consider it high craft in the support of art.”
But his clients and colleagues, ranging from major art collectors to gallery owners and conservators, considered what he did art of the highest order.
“Ed had no peer among other framers,” said James Bernstein, a San Francisco painting conservator. “There is no one who did what Ed did.”