Nigerian, 1918–1993
was a Nigerian artist, blacksmith, and painter, often regarded as one of the prominent painters from Osogbo. He was one of a small group of artists who were part of a creative community known as the Oshogbo School of art. His illustrations were centered around Yoruba mythology as well as Biblical stories, combined with local folklore.
Asiru Olatunde was born into a family of blacksmiths but Illness forced him to give up as a blacksmith in the 1960s, He temporarily made jewelry to sell in the market, before transitioning into painting on the advice of Uilli Beier and Suzanne Wenger in 1961. He adopted a technique known as repousse metalwork, which usually involve the repousse metalworkto derive his artwork,he created animal figurines out of recycled copper and aluminum.