* Philip Orlando; Founder of San Fernando Valley Art Gallery

Philip Orlando, 69, who with his partner, Robert Gino, began an art gallery in the San Fernando Valley more than 30 years ago. The Orlando Gallery, which grew out of a dance studio the men had started earlier, gained a reputation for giving first shows to artists who later became prominent, among them photographers Jo Ann Challis, Bob Heineken and Judy Fiskin and painter Peter Alexander. The gallery was known for its outstanding collection of African art and featured Orlando’s unusual book sculptures. On Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital of respiratory complications.