1736
“My Soldier Home from the War”
FES Title: My soldier home from the war – Come I shall rest you –
Alternate Titles:
Date: 10/04/1929
Size: 40.5″H x 30″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Grey, Zane. “The Rustlers of Silver River.” Country Gentleman, February 1930: 26.
caption: “Oh, the joy of having you back! My Keven!”

Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 188.
caption: Home From the War

Inscription: ll: FES / 29
Annotations: en verso: 1736
en verso on stretcher: -1736- Zane Grey serial Sept. 1929 NO– 1736
en verso on label on stretcher “Oh, Dear! And here I’ve been wearing / you out with my fury!” she exclaimed, / self-accusingly. “But, Oh, the joy of hav- / ing you back! My Keven! My soldier / home from the war! – Come, I shall / rest you and feed you – nurse you till / you are the Keven -”
Exhibitions:
Comments: TP 5/22/02; form; index; edit
On consignment to Helen L. Card, Latendorf Bookshop, New York (as of December 6, 1962);
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by artist to Mary and John Sclavos; by descent in family to private collection; Schoonover Studios, Wilmington, Delaware; Collection of Ken Mazik (2012)