Recorded in the spellings of Minor, Minors, Miner, Miners, the French Huguenot Minier, and its possible variant Minear, this is an English surname of French origins.
Green Wheat Fields, Auvers was painted during Van Goghâs final months in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village just north of Paris. This work is a âpure landscapeâ in that there is no visible motif beyond the grassy field, road, and sky; there are no animals or figures, but instead lush flora whipped up by the wind.
the first great school of American painters, in New York, painted spectacular vistas of the rugged and still largely untamed Hudson Valley, they considered nature, far more than civilization, there source of wisdom and fulfillment, and that wild nature was what made America better than Europe.