This small-format linocut, made in 1978, arrives just one year after Burkhardt's dedicated exhibition of works in the same medium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, situating it within a period of focused and mature engagement with printmaking. Working within the linocut's characteristic language of stark contrast and incised line, Burkhardt brings to the format the same emotional directness that defined his paintings, distilling his expressive concerns into a compressed, intimate scale. The result carries a quiet intensity that rewards close attention, the surface bearing visible evidence of the artist's hand in a way that distinguishes fine-art linocuts from more mechanical reproductive processes. Burkhardt's trajectory as an artist was shaped by extraordinary proximity to the major currents of twentieth-century modernism. His years sharing a studio with Arshile Gorky in New York gave him a formative grounding in the transition between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, and his subsequent move to Los Angeles in 1937 placed him at the center of the West Coast avant-garde. By the 1970s he had long since moved beyond any single stylistic allegiance, developing what critic and art historian Donald Kuspit identified as a singular mastery of the abstract memento mori, a mode in which formal abstraction carries genuine existential and elegiac weight. Works on paper by Burkhardt are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other major institutions, attesting to the sustained regard his work commands across the field. This impression, hand-signed by the artist and limited to an edition of twenty-five, offers collectors a direct point of contact with one of the more underappreciated figures in American postwar art. It is offered through the Laguna Art Museum Benefit Auction, supporting an institution central to the history of art in Southern California.