[a] The collection continued to grow, and in 1971, a new building was built called the Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center.

The new "hut like" wing doubled the museum size; it was designed by Washington, D.C.–based architect Hugh Jacobsen.

To properly display OU’s portion of the collection, the University began construction in 2009 on a new level above the original structure.

Prior to its seizure by Nazis during the German occupation of France, it was owned by Raoul and Yvonne Meyer, heirs to the French department store Galeries Lafayette.

"[10] The Fred Jones Jr Museum then sued Meyer, demanding that she be fined "$3.5m in the US and face penalties of up to $100,000 a day for contempt of court if she does not halt proceedings in France in which she is seeking full ownership of the impressionist work".

[11] “At the end of the day what the [Oklahoma] museum wants is to have the painting on the wall,” says Olivier de Baecque, the university’s lawyer in Paris.

[12] On 1 June 2021, after years of litigation, Meyer abandoned ownership of the Pissarro painting to the Fred Jones Jr.