Jean R. Berman, an artist and philanthropist who endowed a Baltimore Museum of Art gallery, died of a stroke Sunday at her Bal Harbour, Fla., home. The former Pikesville resident was 96.
Born and raised in East Baltimore, the former Jean Roll was a 1928 Eastern High School graduate. In 1933, she married Allan Lake Berman, who owned a Baltimore Street loan company and jewelry business.
Mrs. Berman worked in chiseled stone and studied sculpture with artist Freda Sohn. She also worked in fiber arts.
Mrs. Berman endowed a textile gallery and annual lecture at Baltimore Museum of Art. She also contributed to the Kreiger-Schecter School at the Chizuk Amuno Congregation. When her husband died in 1977, she donated an entry gate for the Arlington Cemetery on Rogers Avenue.