The phrase "acquired statues" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to statues that have been obtained or purchased, often in the context of art collection or historical artifacts.
Example: "The museum proudly displayed its newly acquired statues from the ancient civilization."
Alternatives: "obtained sculptures" or "purchased figures".
He scattered his employees throughout the world, and the artifacts that they acquired — "statues, masks, musical instruments, animal traps, steam engines, stone tools, medals, china, furniture, textiles, paintings, and books" — filled warehouses faster than they could be catalogued.
It is a very old New York sort of book, beloved of Wes Anderson, in which siblings Claudia and Jamie Kincaid run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hellbent on figuring out whether a recently acquired statue is a Michelangelo.
But Ms. True's lawyers argued that after Italy was officially advised in 1988 that the Getty Museum had acquired the statue, its government showed little interest in the Aphrodite's origins for almost two decades.
Hitler's opportunity to acquire the statue arose in the 1930s, when the Lancellotti family fell upon hard times and offered it for sale.
(The statue acquired the nickname while on loan to the San Antonio Museum, in the late eighties, because of a resemblance to one of the museum's young patrons. Harry is currently on loan to the Met, where he stands near the entrance to the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court).
The bohemian Seattle suburb of Fremont acquired a Lenin statue in the early 1990s, with the help of an English teacher, Lewis Carpenter, who mortgaged his home to rescue it from Poprad in Slovakia.
Towards the end of the 14th century, the abbey acquired a "giant" statue of Saint Christopher.
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena announced that it will return an ancient statue acquired nearly 40 years ago to Cambodia, after talks with government officials seeking the repatriation of antiquities it believes were looted from ancient sites.
The Met's statues were acquired in four pieces from donors 1987 to 1992.
Some of them are on view in Strasbourg, along with rare editions and a few of the masks and statues Tzara acquired.
Kristy Bassuener, a spokeswoman for the Denver Art Museum, said the Rama statue was acquired in 1986 with money from several patrons.
