In 2019, Cronin was selected for the Thread Artist Residency in Sinthian, Senegal, a cultural center in West Africa run by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. *Tambacounda* is one of the paintings he made there.
The painting is named for the city he traveled to most weeks during the residency, where a storefront with shirts and dresses hanging in the market became the visual source for the work. The patterns and density of the city moved into the painting.
Because Sinthian is eight hours from Dakar with limited access to art supplies, Cronin packed plywood from home, cut into panels sized for airline check-in. He painted *Tambacounda* on-site over the thirty days of the residency, building it as a modular work that could come apart, ship home, and reassemble in his New York studio.
48" x 84" · Oil paint on board · Painted at Thread Artist Residency, Sinthian, Senegal, 2019 · Signed verso
