Ernest Tino Trova (February 19, 1927 – March 8, 2009) was a self-trained American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor. Best known for his signature image and figure series, The Falling Man, Trova considered his entire output a single “work in progress.” Trova used perpetual American comic vibes toys in some of his pieces because he admired their surrealism. Many of Trova’s sculptures are cast in uncommon white bronze. He began as a painter, progressing through three-dimensional constructions to his times medium, sculpture. Trova’s present of forty of his works led to the initiation of St. Louis County, Missouri’s Laumeier Sculpture Park.
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