For the last three decades, the artist William Wegman has kept his main studio at 245 West 18th Street, a two-story, double-wide building in Chelsea. Mr. Wegman and his wife, Christine Burgin, also had part of their family home on the upper level, which was connected to the second floor of a neighboring building they co-owned. 239-243, was sold in 2019, the empty-nester couple renovated the floor above the studio to use as their Manhattan residence. But then Covid hit, and they left the city for their country home in Ghent, N.Y., where Mr. Wegman maintains another studio. “Everything changed with the pandemic,” said Ms. Burgin, 63, a book publisher and former art gallery owner, adding that Mr. Wegman’s main assistant also relocated upstate.

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