"Artist Files" is collected and first organized by Francesca into three subseries. The first subseries is "Women Artists," which include photographs of artwork, event ephemera, correspondences, manuscripts, articles, interviews, and personal records of twenty artists from China and Taiwan spanning the 1990s, with the bulk of materials dating from 1995 onwards. The second subseries "Painters" contains photographs of artwork, event ephemera, correspondences, clippings, and other documents of thirty-seven artists, dating from the early 1980s through the 1990s. The third subseries, "Non-Painters," contains photographs of artwork, artist statements, correspondences, articles, and other documents of 55 artists, dating from the late 1980s through the 1990s, with the bulk of materials dating from 1994 onwards.