“We wanted it placed where it would be seen by medical students and patients, coming and going from the building,” says the association’s executive director, Elena Bostwick. They would have included the patients of the late Parvin Saidi, MD, Ab Motolinsky Professor of Hematology, professor of medicine, and chief, division of hematology, who had worked closely with HANJ. “I hoped to create a piece that would convey both pain and hope,” says Mr. Adams, who holds a doctorate in psychology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The sculpture was inspired by two chapters in his life. As a child, he would stare at the statues in the Catholic church in Trenton where his family worshipped. “They often had very graphic wounds,” he says. As an adult, residing in New Mexico, he says, “I was moved by the Native American belief that feathers hold living energy and connect us with forces greater then ourselves.” The street-facing side is highly polished so that passersby, seeing their image, may reflect that AIDS can attack anyone, says Mr. Adams. The other side, deeply textured, bears a wound symbolic of the pain caused by the disease. Mr. Adams’s paintings and sculptures are in private, public, and corporate collections throughout the world. 8. 8. Suite of Six Lithographs (after Untitled 1975) Jasper Johns T he State of the Arts tour ends in the Medical Education Building, where six brightly colored lithographs are displayed in a corridor leading to the reception area. The series of signature “crosshatch” works by Jasper Johns is numbered 55/60 at the lower left of each, and at the lower right is dated and signed by the artist, “J. Johns.” Below the signature is the logo of the Gemini GEL workshop, of which Mr. Johns was a longtime affiliate and where these prints were made. A major, innovative force in 20th-century art, Mr. Johns accepted a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2011. His work is exhibited in major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York; the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Pompidou, in Paris. 20 Robert Wood Johnson I MEDICINE