John Northcote Nash was the younger brother of Paul Nash. He had no formal art training and was encouraged to develop his work by his brother. He was an Official Artist in both world wars and specialised in landscape paintings from the 1920s. He regularly visited East Anglia from the 1930s, renting a holiday cottage on the River Stour before moving to Wormingfold in 1946.
The Stour at Bures is a rare lithograph produced as part of the first series of Contemporary Lithographs in 1937. They were printed in editions of 400 and some of the remaining stock was damaged when the Curwen Studio was bombed in 1940. Nash's quiet landscape had not sold as well as works by Ravilious and Wadsworth, so this print is a rarity.