Ray was a British
short-run little avant-garde art magazine, designed,
edited, and financed by the English artist and designer
Sidney Hunt (1926 - 1927), and described as the English equivalent of other influential art journals from the 1920s such as
Merz,
Mecano and
De Stijl.
Ray featured work of leading figures of the European avant-garde such as
Kurt Schwitters,
El Lissitzky,
Theo van Doesburg,
Naum Gabo, and
Hans Arp. Although only two issues were printed, the existence of
Ray establishes a line of continuity between the
Vorticist movement of the 1910s and
Unit One's renaissance of British art in the 1930s. From this perspective,
Ray should be considered the missing link between the 1914-15 publication of the
Vorticist journal
BLAST and the edition of the abstract and constructivist English magazines
Axis (1935-37) and
Circle (1937).