In 1950, The Baltimore Museum of Art opened a new wing dedicated to children's education, funded by BMA patron Saidie A. May. The following year, a commissioned work by sculptor Naum Gabo was installed in the stairwell of the new space. Gabo had a long pedigree within the avant-garde having supervised art projects in post-Revolutionary Russia, and having studied art and science in Munich. As a member of the Constructivist circle of artists, he chose materials for his abstract compositions that could be found in the modern material world. Construction is a diaphanous organically shaped structure suspended in the air from wires, and composed of transparent and reflective materials. Not only was this form meant to reflect natural light, but for Gabo the "ascending and descending spectator...would give an imaginary movement to the sculpture." Due to recent renovations to the Saidie A. May Wing, Gabo's sculpture has been relocated to this stairwell, providing the public with greater access to this masterpiece of modern sculpture.