The International Art Museum of America (IAMA), originally the Superb Art Museum of America, is an art museum located at 1023 Market Street between 6th and 7th Streets in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2011 by H. H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, an artist who claims to be a reincarnation of the Buddha Vajradhara, and originally only contained works by him. In an interview with ''
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'', Dyana Curreri-Ermatinger, the museum's director, denied that the museum was part of a cult, saying that its mission was "to provide a place that is serene and peaceful in the otherwise chaotic environment of Central Market".
The front entrance contains a permanent garden installation with a pond, a waterfall, imitation rock formations, a pagoda-roofed gazebo, and a tree house sculpture designed by artist Steve Blanchard.
Collection
Chinese artists included in the permanent collection
* Yongzheng Emperor (1678-1735)
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Fu Baoshi
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Wu Changshuo
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Life
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(1844-1927)
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Xu Beihong
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People and characters
* Xu (surname), one of two Chinese surnames ( or /), transliterated as Xu in English
* ǃXu, a name for the ǃKung group of Bushmen; may also refer to the ǃKung language or the ǃKung people
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Entertainment
*David Martin (artist) (1737–1797), Scottish painter and engraver
*David Stone Martin (1913–1992), American artist
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Charles Dorman Robinson
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Sir Martin Archer Shee
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Early life
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Frits Thaulow
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Biography
Johan Frederik Thaulow was born in Christiania, the son of a wealthy chemist, Haral ...
(1847-1906)
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Daniel Vertangen
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Biography
According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Cornelis van Poelenburch.Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)
* Dirick Wyntrack (1625-1678)