Will Ryman, The Rose. Private Collection, New York. Photo by Pat Padua.

Yesterday, workers put the finishing touches on Will Ryman’s steel and fiberglass sculpture, 58th Street, part of The Phillips Collection’s year-long anniversary celebration 90 Years of New. This is one of eight such sculptures in The Roses that Rymann exhibited along New York’s Park Avenue earlier this year, but it looks like a native species already. The son of painter Robert Ryman, Will Ryman specializes in large-scale work that has previously leaned towards the grotesque (see 2010’s Dinner Party), but this fiberglass flora will be a pleasant diversion through the end of this hot summer, and will remind us of the cycle of decay and growth through the fall.

Also note — the Phillips has extended their photo contest, What do you see in Stella’s K.43? through September 1. For details on how to submit your photo inspired by Frank Stella’s sculpture, visit their experimentstation blog.

58th Street will be on view at the corner of 21st and Q Streets outside The Phillips Collection untill January 5, 2012.