Members of Cornell rowing team holding up boat; over another illustration of a boat house. John E. Sheridan (1880 - July 3, 1948, New York) was an American illustrator well known in his lifetime for his cover art for The Saturday Evening Post, his illustrations for Collier's Weekly and Ladies' Home Journal, and his commercial advertisements. He was a member of the Dutch Treat Club, and a frequent contributor to the program of their annual banquet and show, and was an instructor at New York's School of Visual Arts at the time of its founding. His obituary in The New York Times states that he "was credited with the idea of using posters to advertise college sports". Cornell University is an American private Ivy League and land-grant doctoral university located in Ithaca, New York. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race.