Ernest Trova

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Ernest Trova
© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Ernest Trova

American surrealist, pop art painter, and sculptor, 1927–2009
BiographyAmerican painter and sculptor, Ernest Trova was born in St. Louis in 1927. He was largely self-taught though his early experience working as a window dresser is considered an influence on his work. Trova is best known for his "Falling Man," a futuristic, faceless, armless humanoid that the artist developed in the early 1960s.
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