This image was included in Taylor's portfolio "Baja California Woodcuts." A book of the same title illustrating the 53 woodcuts from this series was published by Plantin Press in Los Angeles in 1969 in a limited edition of 540.
"Shark In the Wave" is used as the one of the three frontispieces in the book "Baja California Woodcuts" and is the third of 53 woodcuts created for the series. Though he comments on the 50 prints in the portfolio, the 3 frontispieces, "Bird Roost, Puertecitos", "Shark in the Wave" and "Crabs, Punta San Jacinto" that accompany his forward are not specifically addressed.
Taylor depicts a large Hammerhead shark, visible in a wave off the shore of Punta San Jacinto, Baja, Mexico, a major surfing area. The shark appears almost as a ghost, ominous yet majestic.