Ernest Tino Trova was an American painter and sculptor born in 1927 near St. Louis, Missouri. He was self-taught and lived his entire life in Missouri. After high school, he worked as a department store decorator, and his early work was collected by Morton D. May, who later donated a painting to the Museum of Modern Art. In the 1960s, Trova developed his *Falling Man* series, depicting a recurring armless and featureless figure in paintings and sculptures. He began exhibiting with the Pace Gallery in 1963, where his first exhibition sold out. Trova did not relocate to New York and had limited contact with other artists, though he corresponded with Ezra Pound. In the 1980s, he left Pace Gallery to exhibit locally in St. Louis. He later donated...