Peach Orchard is typical of Law’s mature work of the  1930s and 40s. In her own words, “I put down what I see, wherever I am,  and the result is a record of life in a small southern town.” Interest  in real-life characters and situations was common among students of  Robert Henri. But although obviously deeply influenced by Henri and  devoted to the themes of American Scene painting, Law incorporated  modernist influences into her work through her repetition of forms,  simplified composition, and vibrant color. Many of her works depict the  lives and routines of rural laborers, often African Americans. 

In Peach Orchard, however, theirs and other southerners' presence is implicit  rather than explicit.  Only a country road meandering into the distance  interrupts the feeling of quiet imposed by rolling hills and carefully  ordered rows of fruit trees. But the vivid palette and gestural painting  technique characteristic of her figure paintings reveals itself here,  too - in her energetic rendering of the peach trees' dark, gnarled  branches.