J.M.W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway hangs in a corner of Room 34 at the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square. The painting remains close to where it was first exhibited in ...

Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro were both wowed by Turner's art. An engraving of Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed (which depicts a train hurtling over Maidenhead bridge) was even displayed at the ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 ...

The hazy quality of works like Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed (1844) was influenced by air pollution, a new study says. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. J.M.W. Turner’s painting Apullia in ...

Rain, Steam and Speed – the Great Western Railway (1844), with its locomotive hurtling towards the viewer across Maidenhead Railway Bridge, is perhaps the first incarnation of the “industrial ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844). Photo: DeAgostini/Getty Images; London, National Gallery.

Joseph Mallord William Turner’s “Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway,” 1844, was painted as London's skies were being choked by industrial smog. Turner/National Gallery.

In “Rain, Steam and Speed — The Great Western Railway,” painted 30 years later, hazy skies dominate. During that time, sulfur dioxide emissions more than doubled. Advertisement ...

Another beautiful monsoon painting is J.M.W. Turner's ‘Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway’. The painting looks kind of blurry as if it were smudged by someone, but actually ...

Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro were both wowed by Turner's art. An engraving of Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed (which depicts a train hurtling over Maidenhead bridge) was even displayed at the ...