Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Paula Canale Wolfson, neé Paola Canale, was born in Milan, Italy on 13 May 1908. Nothing is known about her early life other than she studied at the Brera Academy in Milan.

Paula Canale married Maximilien John Oscar Wolfson on 2 May 1932 in Genova, Italy and they applied for U.S. citizenship on 23 October 1939. According to the 1940 US census, they were living in Houston, Texas.

At some point Wolfson moved to the Washington, D.C. area where she studied at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design with painter and printmaker Eugene Weisz and sculptor Heinz Warneke. She later taught at the Corcoran School.

Wolfson eventually moved to Pelham, New York where she was a member of the Pelham Art Center. Her work was included in their 50^th Anniversary Exhibition in 2020. Her work is represented in the Pratt Institute Library Archive, Brooklyn.

According to an article in the Scarsdale Inquirer, the Scarsdale Woman’s Club Italian Group was to present Paula Canale Wolfson demonstrating how to print a woodcut on Tuesday, February 23, 1971. This article also mentions that Wolfson exhibited in many cities in the United States, Peru and Italy and that she had many solo exhibitions in New York and abroad. It also informs us that the artist worked for the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company and decorated six ships with her graphics and paintings.

Paula Canale Wolfson died in Pelham, New York on 31 March 2002.