NY. . He also exhibited new paintings at Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY. After seeing these exhibitions, Katharina Rich Perlow invited Clutz to join her gallery, which happened to be located in same 57th St. building as Clutz's 1960s dealer, Bertha Schaefer. Clutz continued to show often and successfully at this gallery until it closed in 2009. The artist was elected to the National Academy of Design in 2005. In a review of Clutz's retrospective exhibition in 2002, "William Clutz: Five Decades of New York Streets", Ken Johnson writes: Clutz taught painting and drawing at Parsons The New School for Design from 1970 to 1994. Before that, he taught at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, from 1967 to 1968. He also participated in a teaching exchange at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and the Royal Academy, The Hague, in 1984. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award at Parsons The New School for Design in 1989. In 1996, Clutz moved from Manhattan to Rhinebeck, NY, where he resided. He retired in 2008. Clutz died on July 26, 2021. John F. Sheehy, Clutz's partner for 30 years, an antiques dealer and Ireland native, died in 2007. Selected important works in major collections Significant works by Clutz are included in the collections of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, DC; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, MD; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; National Academy Museum, NY; Dayton Art Institute, OH; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Newark Museum, NJ; Museum of the City of New York, NY; Tweed Museum of Art, MN; Hudson River Museum, NY; Mercersburg Academy, PA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; Huntsville Museum of Art, LA; and others. His works are also included in many corporate collections, including Chase Bank, NY; Third National Bank and Trust, Dayton, OH; Bradley Family Foundation (Lynden Sculpture Garden), Milwaukee, WI; First Bank Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota Mutual, St. Paul, MN; Mobil Corp. Fairfax, VA; McKinsey and Co., NY, and others. His career materials are deposited in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Fifteen of his major works and associated documentation comprise his legacy collection at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. Selected exhibition chronology 1956 "Recent Drawings USA," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1959 "William Clutz," Condon Riley Gallery, New York, NY 1961 "The Emerging Figure," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston,