Joseph Mallett

Joseph Mallord William Turner kept a window cracked in his London studio for decades, even in winter, so the fog could drift in and blur his paintings. He once tied himself to a ship’s mast just to watch a storm, later turning the gale into *The Slave Ship*’s swirling pinks and blacks. Why he belongs here: hunt down his *Rain, Steam and Speed*—the train’s blur tells you everything about speed before cars existed.