In spring 1951 the Admiral David Farragut Chapter of the DAR presented a portrait of Mattie Kain to hang in the Mattie Kain wing of Sophronia Strong Hall. In 1804 Kain was one of the first coeds to attend UT. The portrait was painted by Knoxvillian Mary Grainger. Mary Adair House Crossley, a descendant of Mattie Kain, served as the model for the portrait. The background for the portrait was the setting of the old Kain home, which stood where the Southern Railroad’s John Sevier Yards was later located. Kain is depicted in a rose-colored gown, wearing a nineteenth-century-style bonnet. Mrs. E. E. Patton, regent of the DAR chapter presented the portrait, which was accepted by Vice President Fred C. Smith for the university.