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King Chuckwalla is a lizard sculpture, about 7 feet long, installed in February 2018 at Fourth Street and Andy Devine Avenue (Route 66) in downtown Kingman, Arizona, by California artist Solomon Bassoff for the city's Art in Public Places program.
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King Chuckwalla Statue
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A lizard about 7 feet long sits at a downtown Kingman corner on Route 66. According to Reptiles Magazine in February 2018, King Chuckwalla was made for the City of Kingman by Solomon Bassoff of North San Juan, California, as the first piece installed under the city's Art in Public Places program. Explore Kingman credits Bassoff of Faducci Studio, and a July 2026 Route 66 travel blog credits Bassoff and Domenica Mottarela Faducci.
Reports of its size differ. Reptiles Magazine gave 7 feet long, 4 feet wide and 3 feet tall, weighing 1,300 pounds, in metal and Italian mosaic glass, and put real chuckwallas at 14 to 20 inches long. Route 66 News, in a February 2018 note from Route 66 author Jim Hinckley, gave more than 1,800 pounds, materials of concrete, glass and bronze, and a $10,000 cost that it said, judging from online comments, made the piece "a bit controversial".
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An outdoor sculpture of a large lizard on a downtown Kingman street corner along Route 66, installed in 2018 and listed by Explore Kingman in 2023.
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At the southwest corner of Fourth Street and Andy Devine Avenue (Route 66) in downtown Kingman, Arizona, on a public street corner.
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