Morley’s great painterly gifts have always groped for proper subjects. Here they revert to boyish fantasies of aerial combat, circa the World Wars and Korea. Creamily brushed in resounding colors, the Red Baron and other aces pose with their aircraft. Planes explode in midair or upon crash landing. One picture—its forms distorted as if by sheer excitement—finds Morley portraying his aged self in a diving Sopwith Camel, as a German pilot glances back at him while parachuting from a burning Roland D.II. Modern violence goes rococo: Tiepolo with machine guns. Through April 30.

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