Edward Hopper spent most of his adult life living and working in a building at 3 Washington Square Park North in Greenwich Village, along with his wife Jo.
He painted scenes seen outside his window and from his roof, like the park and the Judson Memorial Church. He started that particular painting in 1932, but didn’t put the final touches on until more than a quarter century later.
“He came back to it in 1959, decades later to finish it, where he painted in the sky and I think he may have also painted in silhouettes of buildings in the background so you sort of see the city growing over
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