Featured Bronze Sculpture does anyone know this artist

Bronze Scupture does anyone know this artist. Looks like it's signed A.Soffa '36. Can't find a matching listing anywhere. Does anyone know the artist?

 

OMG I love those !!!!

 

Almost impossible to do an internet search with "A. Soffa" because you-know-what comes up.

Debora

 

Couches,couches and more couches Debora ! Ive tried every way I can think of but no dice. I did find other artists with the name Soffa,but most were younger and their work looked nothing like this.

 

A.Soffa,1936-perhaps a piece from the WPA,part of FDR's National Recovery Act NRA,(not the 'boom-boom' NRA). Many of the 1930's National Parks grand lodges,scenic highways,hospitals,schools,government buldings,etc were built by WPA Programs.
The program employed hundreds (thousands ?) of artists,sculptors,photographers,writers,playwrights,actors ,musicians,architects,engineers and builders etc to get Americans back to work during the Great Depression.
A lot of fine 'reigional' artwork came out of the NRA/WPA programs-Soffa could be one.
...imagine that.

 

Thanks, I was thinking the same. There was a lot of WPA work done here in Oregon and many artists moved on to other careers. Appreciate the response

 

RobS- I'm an Oregon person too ! Bless all those 'old timers' who built Timberline Lodge,Multnomah Falls Lodge and Columbia River Highway.Roosevelt went head to head with the Supreme Court to get those programs through-including Social Security.
The great wheel (or broken record) of history.

 

Doesn't look very American to me but... that's just a feeling, not an educated opinion.

Debora

 

Maybe it represents 2 elder gents in a pool contemplating each other's hair blow ? Mythos,friendship,who knows-Mr or Mrs Soffa had some talent.This artist perhaps has a sense of humor,some whimsy,like Joseph Levine,Saul Steinberg,etc.
You know how family names were misspelled when the emigrated thru Ellis Island in New York,here's a few iterations of Soffa (boy-I sure did indeed see some nice,unaffordable Couches on Google Image !)

Soffa Name Meaning
Altered Form Of French-Sauvé (See Sauve). Compare Sopha-German: Unexplained. This Surname Is Rare In Germany. Compare Sopha
Sourceictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Soha,Sopha,Goff,Baffa,Sousa,Sosna,
Socha,Socia,Hoffa,Buffa
PS-As Debora says,could well be European.