Explore the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection in fun new ways, using your favorite emoji

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Grandma Moses, Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City

When you don’t have the exact words, browse SAAM’s collection using emoji.

Sometimes words alone are too much or not enough. Visual expression and ways of communicating beyond text can help share emotion, add punctuation, or fill a gap that language often leaves out.

Artists and art lovers understand this intimately and embrace that moment of discovery when an unspoken element of an artwork speaks to them. This is where SAAM’s dynamic browsing options offer a new way to share how you feel with your friends and family. Explore hundreds of artworks in SAAM’s collection using your favorite emoji. Or, scroll through thousands more by color, category, U.S. state, or even artist’s birthday, and encounter works of art that inspire and excite in a way you did not expect.

Explore SAAM’s collection by emoji

From cats and dogs to flowers, landscapes, and more, here are a few of our favorite emoji to start your exploration.

Mabel Wellington Jack, Young Cat Sleeping

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Grandma Moses, Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City, 1946, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Kallir Family in memory of Otto Kallir, 2016.51, © Grandma Moses Properties

Ted Gordon, (Untitled--Cat), 1982, ballpoint pen and ink, felt-tipped pen and ink, crayon and, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak, 1983.56

Mabel Wellington Jack, Young Cat Sleeping, 1937, lithograph on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration, 1975.83.58

Albert E. Flanagan, Flower Study, 1960, watercolor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from S.I., Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, 1970.271

William H. Johnson, Flowers, 1939-1940, oil on plywood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.602

Beatrice Wood, Untitled (Dachshund), 1932, watercolor on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Francis M. Naumann, New York, 1986.63.3

Roy De Forest, Drawing XVII, 1974, oil crayon and colored pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1985.30.12

Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, granddaughter of William Brown Dinsmore, who acquired the painting in 1873 for "The Locusts," the family estate in Dutchess County, New York, 1977.107.1

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